Antonyms for gormandize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : verb gawr-muh n-dahyz; noun gawr-muh n-deez

Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈgɔr mənˌdaɪz; noun ˌgɔr mənˈdiz

Definition of gormandize

Origin : 1540s, from gourmand + -ize.

verb gorge

Example sentences :

And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since.
Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) » by John McElroy

Indeed, very frequently when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
Extract from : « Holiday House » by Catherine Sinclair

Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandize to repletion.
Extract from : « The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies » by Walter Besant

Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
Extract from : « The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young » by Margaret Warner Morley

And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
Extract from : « Mother » by Maksim Gorky

Go to, thou gorged dullard, and tell thy master to gormandize without me.
Extract from : « Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II » by Various

She satirizes human foibles and weaknesses, showing ghosts that gossip and gormandize, simper and swear as they did in life.
Extract from : « The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction » by Dorothy Scarborough

Indeed, very frequently, when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
Extract from : « Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) » by Various

Synonyms for gormandize

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